Example sentences of "been [verb] the time " in BNC.

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1 Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities .
2 Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off .
3 Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 .
4 In fact in the eighteen nineties , I believe the seeds were being sown , of what has since been called the time obsession of the twentieth century .
5 Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party .
6 And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports .
7 After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ?
8 If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed .
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